Emotions move us. The word, "emotion," derived from the Latin, literally means "to move." The ancients believed that emotions move behavior; in modern times we say they motivate behavior. They ...

However, as each of us knows all too well, happiness isn’t all that exists, and it’s certainly not the culmination of a life’s worth of experiences. In a world where happiness (something that looks ...

Emotions are more physiological than psychological. Their psychological significance comes from the meaning we give to them. Uninformed by the function and mechanics of emotions, the meaning we assign ...

Most people wait for motivation as if it is a magical force that will suddenly appear and push them into action. We convince ...

"Emotion is a complex and intense (with an abrupt onset and relatively short duration) psychophysiological experience of an animal individual's state of mind related to a locatable object as it reacts ...